If you destroy spaces where men’s strength and virtue are tried and tested through combat and brotherhood, then you will have no men of strength and virtue.

Today we dissect what went wrong, when it did, and why.

And a special call to action for potential shieldmaidens.

Show Notes:

Pillar article - Yeti Blood Oath Divides Denver Seminary

Pillar article - Fr. Carlos Martins responds to “incident” allegation

Now that I’m putting together these show notes, I’m noticing that the recent “scandals” of good priests that blew up into ridiculousness were primarily published by The Pillar.

Curious, that.

Thank you to my loyal audience for having the patience with me in my delays. I do try to put these out at my leisure, and I haven't had much leisure time lately, and you have suffered dearly for it.

You're not gonna want to miss this episode. There's a special piece at the end, courtesy of Gab.ai. It’s what happens when AI goes bad. I had a lot of fun recording it, and hope you have enjoy listening to it.

Don’t forget this podcast is hosted on audio and on YouTube, so if you prefer audio only or you prefer video, you have a choice in the matter.

It is common among many men, many content creators, many Catholic personalities to say that most modern men are bad husbands, bad fathers, and just not good men.

Imagine a universe in which beating men down actually works to make them better.

Also in this episode we touch on The Sisterhood, a horrible hydra-like monstrosity of the Borderline persuasion that lusts for power.

The way a mother reacts to her husband, her attitude toward him, will color the children's interpretation of their father. She poisons the well against him, and turns the children against him.

A mother coddling her children, treating her children like they're not capable of doing what dad tells them to do creates in them a sense that they are incapable.

The problem at the center of it is that women are emotionally weak, and indulge in their every emotion. She can't stomach her husband's conduct with the children, and she can't stomach her children do anything that is hard, unless the child seems happy and excited about it.

Her emotions are the center of the relationship, the center of the family, and that ruins things for everybody,.

Tune in for more.

Lack of fatherhood is regularly blamed for the various psychological issues of their children, but that’s too convenient. Looking upstream of the problem, we see there’s a cause to why many fathers seem to be insufficient. Dr. Taylor Marshall recently posted this on X (the platform stubbornly referred to as “Twitter”):

Are these things actually true?

Listen and find out!

Other resources: A letter I wrote on the topic which was published in January 2022 on Barnhardt.biz.

JD Flynn, best known for his work at The Pillar (they did really great work with the priests’ metadata expose) posted this tweet last week, trying to call men to something better. Does this approach work? Do young men follow Andrew Tate because young men are only interested in self-indulgence and self-centeredness?

Does the “men come last” model of marriage work?

Let’s dive into this.

Have you seen the movie Braveheart?

Remember the scene when William Wallace and his men prepare for battle by taking carts loaded with barrels of oil to where the English will line up for the following day’s battle, and soaks their side with the oil?

Sure enough, the next day, the English line up on the soggy side, just where William Wallace and his men planned. Wallace has his archers fire flaming arrows toward the English, and the English soldiers burst into flames.

That’s kind of like what many wives do to their husbands by baiting him in to a fight. Many wives are so skilled and practiced that they can turn anything into a fight through defensiveness and deflection.

For example, she’s making herself a sandwich, and you ask her if she’ll make you a sandwich too. She fires back, “YOU should be making ME a sandwich,” then launches into a tirade against you, bringing up a laundry list of supposed past offenses. You try to answer each one with logical responses, but she moves the goalposts onto another offense, and another, and another. Tune in to this episode to learn how to avoid the bait and shut down return fire so you can have a more peaceful and healthier marriage.

All the resources online for struggling marrieds just tell the husbands to “love her” or get a divorce. There’s got to be something more. to “love her” is so general, and that doesn’t seem to break the cycle of dysfunction in the relationship. That’s because it assumes that you know how to “love her”, meaning you know what she needs and how to apply that in an effective way.

In this episode, you’ll hear real, practical, easy to apply methods of giving your wife what she needs in the specific moments of dysfunction.

It’s simpler than you think.

Discussing men participating in their own abuse and how to stop it.